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Alabama Baseball Blows Five-Run Lead in Loss to Texas A&M
HOOVER — Alabama’s inconceivable run on this 12 months’s SEC Event skilled its first snag. After constructing a five-run lead by means of 4 innings, the 11-seed Crimson Tide’s pitching workers ran out of steam because it allowed 2-seed Texas A&M to rally again for a 12-8 victory Friday night time.
Alabama will now play Florida in an elimination sport on Saturday at 9:30 a.m. CT. The winner of that sport will face Texas A&M in a semifinal elimination sport at 4:30 p.m.
As was the case in wins in opposition to Georgia and Arkansas earlier within the event, Alabama jumped out to an early benefit Friday night time, utilizing a mix of well timed hitting and poor Texas A&M fielding to take a 6-1 lead after 4 innings.
Solely this time the Tide’s pitching workers was unable to take care of the benefit.
Alabama left a withering Grayson Hitt within the sport one batter too lengthy because the beginning pitcher allowed a three-run dwelling run to Texas A&M’s Dylan Rock to chop the Crimson Tide’s result in 6-4 within the high of the fifth.
Hitt had held the Aggies to 1 run on two hits over the primary 4 innings however started to falter within the fifth, starting the inning by throwing seven straight balls. After permitting two runners to succeed in base, the left-hander got here a strike away from escaping the jam earlier than seeing his 3-2 pitch to Rock lined over the left-field wall.
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Alabama’s implosion continued the next inning as three extra Texas A&M runs allowed the Aggies to take a 7-6 lead. A pair of walks and successful by pitch loaded the bases for Texas A&M earlier than a single from Kole Kaler tied the sport. From there, the Aggies went on high as Rock was hit with the bases loaded and two outs.
Texas A&M added to the Crimson Tide’s distress with 4 runs within the high of the seventh inning. Three of these got here on a two-out dwelling run by Trevor Werner. The Aggies scored eight of their runs with two outs.
Alabama rallied again with a pair of runs within the backside of the seventh on a bases-loaded double by Bryce Eblin however was unable to get something greater than that, stranding two runners on base within the inning. The pair of runs represents the one time the Crimson Tide has scored outdoors of the primary 4 innings in all three of its video games within the event.
Alabama’s early lead was aided by some sloppy fielding from Texas A&M. Following a leadoff single from Caden Rose within the backside of the primary, Andrew Pinckney appeared as if he would floor out right into a double play. Nevertheless, a low throw from shortstop Kale Kaler bounced off the glove of first baseman Jack Moss and into proper discipline, permitting Pinkney to succeed in third base with one out. A sacrifice fly from Drew Williamson gave Alabama its first run the following at-bat.
After permitting the Aggies to tie the sport within the high of the second inning, the Crimson Tide continued its sizzling hitting within the backside of the body. Following one-out singles from Tommy Seidl and Jim Jarvis, Rose tripled off the right-field wall to place Alabama up 3-1. Rose then scored on an error by Werner, who booted a softly-hit floor ball down the third-base line. Texas A&M dedicated 5 errors on the day.
The Crimson Tide went up 6-1 within the backside of the fourth because of RBI singles from Pinckney and Dominic Tamez earlier than permitting Texas A&M to rally again.
Friday’s loss snaps a five-game profitable streak for Alabama (31-26) relationship again to a regular-season sequence win over Arkansas. Coming into Friday, the Crimson Tide was the No. 61 crew in Baseball America’s 64-team NCAA Event projection. Regardless of recording wins over Georgia and Arkansas earlier within the event, Alabama probably wants yet one more win to really feel snug about being named to an NCAA regional on Monday.
Ultimate: Texas A&M 12, Alabama 8
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Alabama NAACP decries Supreme Court granting presidents legal immunity
The NAACP Alabama State Conference issued a statement on Tuesday saying the organization was “devastated by the high court ruling in [the] Trump immunity case.”
Benard Simelton, the organization’s president, said that “the Highest Court in the land has failed to protect its citizens from the most dangerous threat to our society, and this ruling, coming from the United States Supreme Court, violates the trust put in it by its citizens.”
Released on Monday, the Supreme Court’s decision on Trump v. United States stated that presidents have “presumptive immunity” for all official acts and “absolute immunity” for all official acts covered by presidents’ “exclusive authority.”
All six justices that signed onto the majority opinion in Trump v. United States were appointed by Republican presidents, with three appointed by Trump himself. Simelton told APR the NAACP wasn’t expecting the ruling because they “thought [the Supreme Court] would put their partisan views and ideology aside and rule based on the court of law.”
Alabama Republicans were quick to publicly support the ruling. On a Tuesday radio show, Congressman Jerry Carl said America was “really, really, really close to becoming a third-world country” before the Supreme Court gave presidents legal immunity.
However, liberal politicians and many legal experts have called the ruling both anti-democratic and potentially dangerous. Walter Olson, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, wrote that the ruling “is not what the Framers wanted” and “not what we should want either.”
“The NAACP does not support this decision,” Simelton said. “We think that presidents should be held accountable for their actions when they violate the law, when they’re in office and certainly when they’re out of office.”
NAACP president Derrick Johnson called the decision “a danger to not only the African American community, but a danger to our society as a whole.”
Simelton explained to APR that he personally feels “this ruling will determine how our democracy will move forward.”
“If we determine that the president of the United States is above the law then everything that we work for in a democracy will be undermined and essentially done away with,” he noted.
Simelton said he believes Americans need to elect both a president who respects everyone’s rights and the limits of their office and members of Congress who can keep an eye on the president and on the Supreme Court.
Pointing to the 22nd Amendment, which formalized the two term limit for the presidency, Simelton stated that America “didn’t want a person becoming an office and staying there forever” and it’s “the same thing with the Supreme Court.”
“I think it’s time to start looking at term limits for the Supreme Court,” he proffered.
Simelton is not the only person to call for more checks on the Supreme Court in the aftermath of its recent controversial rulings.
Senator Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, called it “disgraceful that Justices Thomas and Alito brazenly refused to recuse themselves from [Trump v. United States]” and said he’ll continue pushing for the Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act.
Senators Tina Smith, D-Minnesota, and Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, were just two of the elected officials to call to expand the Supreme Court as Congress did in the 1860s and FDR threatened to in the 1930s.
If the Supreme Court is not expanded, the composition of the court will only change as justices retire or die while in office. Whichever presidential candidate is elected in November, in addition to their newfound immunity, will likely appoint one or more people to the Supreme Court to either weaken or entrench the current majority.
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